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Why Organizations Forget What They Learn from Failures

Harvard Business Review

After the 2005 explosion, the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board pushed BP to focus more on safety. We built on qualitative data from NASA’s Challenger and Columbia accidents to develop a model about the role of serious errors in organizations’ cycling between learning and forgetting.

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U.S. Trade Lobbying Strategy for the 21st Century

Harvard Business Review

It is rare to find an American company that is not developing a market strategy to benefit from the rapid growth of emerging markets such as Brazil, India, and China. The Doha Round was supposed to rein in agricultural subsidies, address the development concerns of poorer countries, and open up service sector markets — and cut tariffs.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies. Coca-Cola, for example, faced a water shortage in India that forced it to shut down one of its plants in 2004. Since its launch in 2012, Flyknit has reduced 3.5 In 2005, they launched a U.S.

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Rethinking Your Supply Chain in an Era of Protectionism

Harvard Business Review

In 2004, the cost of manufacturing on the east coast of China was approximately 15 percentage points cheaper, on average, than in the United States. Of the major manufacturing sectors, only chemicals, food, and beverages and tobacco products saw a meaningful increase in the number of firms. Census Bureau data.